Hi Tore,

surname-firstnames

should not need PADR. The spaces from surname are moved to the end of the string.

Agnes
>>Hi
>>just wondering whats wrong with syntax below !!?
>>
>>index on trim(upper(surname))+trim(upper(firstnames)) tag NAMEUNIQUE FOR internal=1 CANDIDATE
>>
>>the error is ,Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword (Error 36)
>>
>>if i remove keyword "candidate" it goes thru fine but i need to create unique index.
>>any ideas much appreciated
>
>The reason for this error is that the index expression does not always create index keys of fixed length, which is a requirement.

>index on padr(upper(trim(surname)+trim(firstnames)),50) tag NAMEUNIQUE  FOR  internal=1 CANDIDATE

>Or even shorter

>index on padr(upper(surname-firstnames),50) tag NAMEUNIQUE  FOR  internal=1 CANDIDATE